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Walk around Long Beach today and you’ll find new apartment complexes mixed with decades-old Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance-style buildings. The Hotel Royal is one of those buildings, and nothing about this hotel is typical, or conventional. And honestly, that’s what makes this exciting.

try to stay away from the uncomfortable stuff whenever possible. It’s just easier that way. What does that mean for the summer, with its long laundry list of en vogue sandals, accessories, and have-to-have-it sundresses? I focus on the ones that matter – the ones that I’ll feel good in for years to come.

You know the saying. “It’s not about what you know, it’s about who you know.” You’ve probably hear some iteration of this at one point or another. I can recall back in college when I first moved to California and learned the importance of “networking,” and I remember thinking to myself that networking seemed to come so easily to everybody… but me.